May 22, 2008

Lincoln Chafee: "There are two John McCains"

The one in the Senate different than the one after the Republican base
Lincoln Chafee: “There are two John McCains”

On FOX News Tuesday, former Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee made clear what many of us have been arguing for some time now: That Senator John McCain bears no resemblance to the current presumptive Republican nominee.

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Transcript via TP:

There’s one that was my colleague in the Senate that was good on the environment, that voted with me, the only other Republican to vote against the tax cuts, and had the Gang of 14. And now there’s the senator McCain that’s running for the Republican nomination. It’s almost like two people, kow-towing to the Republican base. It’s a different John McCain, hearing the rhetoric I hear now. Make the tax cuts permanent and distancing himself from his environmental record. And being a different candidate, and talking as he is now about how we need to not engage anybody on the world. …

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